Online courses

Only three online credits may be counted toward your full-time enrollment requirements. You are required to have a minimum number of credit hours taken in the classroom, as shown below. Courses listed in myZou as 30–80 percent online are considered online courses. These course credits will be counted toward the maximum three credits of online coursework allowed for your full-time enrollment requirements.

Total credits needed

Maximum online credits

Minimum classroom credits

Undergraduate

12

3

9

Graduate (without assistantship)

9

3

6

Graduate (with assistantship)

6

3

3

Exceptions to a full course of study

Individual departments or the Graduate School may require you to take more credits. Enrollment as an auditor or hearer or in "exam credit" does not count toward full-time enrollment. Incomplete courses continued in the following semester do not count toward full-time enrollment.

Reduced course load

U.S. immigration regulations allow you to enroll in a reduced course load in the following situations:

Initial academic difficulties in your first or second semester (one semester only)

Temporary illness or medical condition (one semester at a time, no longer than one year)

Summer session enrollment

If summer is your first term at MU, you must be enrolled full time during that summer session.

Undergraduate students: Enroll in 6 credit hours

Graduate students: Enroll in 4.5 credit hours

If summer is your last term at MU, you must be enrolled in at least one credit hour that meets the following criteria:

Credit must be offered on MU's campus as face-to-face credit hours

You cannot be enrolled in only online credits

Course enrollment must appear on the summer term transcript

If you are concurrently enrolled in another institution, at least one credit hour must be at MU

Continuing students are not required to enroll for summer courses unless it is your final semester at MU (you will complete your degree and graduate in August). Doctoral students who have passed comprehensive exams are required to take at least one credit during the summer. Refer to the Graduate School for more information.

Concurrent enrollment

You may take courses at another institution while attending MU. At least 50 percent of your courses must be taken at MU. The courses you take at another institution will count toward your full-time enrollment requirement at MU as long as you submit a Reduced Course Load request in myStatus with confirmation of enrollment at the other institution.

Process for dropping or withdrawing from a course

If you are dropping or withdrawing from a course during the semester, you must first receive permission from the International Center if the drop/withdrawal causes you to fall below a full course load. You must follow these additional steps:

Find out if you are eligible for a reduced course load by reviewing the enrollment guidelines above. If you need a reduced course load authorization** to drop below full-time enrollment, submit an online request in myStatus. (If you withdraw from a course after the last day to drop, you will also need to complete a course withdrawal form with your academic department.)

Once your request has been submitted, come to the International Center during walk-in advising.

If you are eligible to drop or withdraw from the course, the international student adviser will give you a dropping a course form. You will need to take this form to the Office of the University Registrar, where your course will be officially dropped.

**Graduate students who have assistantships or have passed their comprehensive exams may not be required to have the Reduced Course Load form, but will still need to come to walk-in advising to get the dropping a course form if they will be dropping below nine credit hours for the semester.

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